September 25: The United States recognizes the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign states, establishing formal relations between both Pacific island countries. The details of Hieu Minh Ngo’s exploits only came to light following his arrest for selling personal information of US residents (including credit card numbers and Social Security numbers) to cybercriminals across the world, something he had been doing since 2007. November 11 – Palestinian leader and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat dies in France, at the age of 75, from hemorrhagic stroke.

The information was being sold as part of a collected dump also including the likes of MyFitnessPal (more on that below), MyHeritage (92 million), ShareThis, Armor Games, and dating app CoffeeMeetsBagel. Half of all jobs with requirements lower than a bachelor's degree are currently in the process of being replaced with partial- or full-automation. These are quintessentially political questions; the economic and demographic trajectories merely set the conditions for an array of political possibilities ranging from assimilation to a racial and ethnic cold war.In March 2020, the company announced that an attacker obtained part of its database, impacting 538 million Weibo users and their personal details including real names, site usernames, gender, location, and phone numbers. But what of the other half of a reversion to the pattern of 1960s beliefs, when poor blacks mistrusted whites and well-off blacks, and saw little reason to believe that conventional political institutions were on their side? In the 1950s and 1960s, African Americans who were well-off frequently saw less racial discrimination, both generally and in their own lives, than did those who were poor.

March 23 – Singaporean politician and the 1st Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew dies at the age of 91. Making its second appearance in this list is Yahoo, which suffered an attack in 2014 separate to the one in 2013 cited above. December 11 – After 15 years of negotiations, the People's Republic of China becomes a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Blacks are consistently more likely to see bias against their own race than against others in treatment by police, portrayals in the media, the criminal justice system, promotion to management positions, and the ability to get mortgages and credit loans.Trump is impeached a second time a week later for his role in the storming, making him the first US federal official to be impeached more than once and the first president to have his trial occur after his tenure expired.

Because of sex-selective abortion, fewer girls have been born in the 21st century (and since the early 1980s) compared to past centuries, mostly because of son preference in East and South Asia. Azerbaijan launches a successful military campaign against Armenian forces to take back the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The NATO interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s, and the overthrow of several regimes during the Arab Spring in the early 2010s, led to mixed outcomes in the Arab world, resulting in several civil wars and political instability. After years of global push back, the extremist group transitions from a proto-state into an insurgency as it retains offshoots and influence in regions across the globe. Advances in technology such as ultrasound, prenatal genetic testing and genetic engineering are modifying the demographics and has the potential to change the genetic makeup of the human population.There is a lack of general agreement over how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. It is expected by 2040, the investing of more than 5 times the current global gross domestic product is expected to be in urban infrastructure.